
Stéphane Audran
Biography
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles. She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963). Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival. She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984). Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stéphane Audran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmografi
Maximum Risk1996 · Chantal
Deadly Circuit1983 · Germaine, the grey lady
The Butcher1970 · Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
The Gypsy1986 · Brigitte
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972 · Alice Sénéchal
The Twist1976 · Claire
Bluebeard1963 · Fernande Segret
Babette's Feast1987 · Babette
The Unfaithful Wife1969 · Hélène Desvallées
And Then There Were None1974 · Ilona Morgan
The Big Red One1980 · Walloon
Thieves After Dark1984 · Isabelle's mother
Just Before Nightfall1971 · Hélène Masson
The Third Lover1962 · Hélène
The Girl from Monaco2008 · Édith Lassalle
My Wife's Name Is Maurice2002 · Jacqueline Boisdain
La Cage aux Folles II1980 ·
Line of Demarcation1966 · La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
Cry of the Heart1974 · Claire
Madeline1998 · Lady Marie Covington
Violette Nozière1978 · Germaine Nozière
Death of a Corrupt Man1977 · Christiane Dubaye
Without Apparent Motive1971 · Hélène Vallée
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